Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-27
DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.

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DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.
A division and admission mass meet
ing has been called to meet ut Woon-
The north Dakota Congregational az
sociatlou is in session at Fargo with q
very large attendance.
The machinery hall OF George. e..
Shaver, at Fargo, was burned Friday,
along with machinery, hay and grain.
Loss, So 900; insured.
The frost at Neche Thursday night
was ~ inches thick. 1t vas the COOLEST
at thus season of the year in the recollec-
ton OF the oldest settlers.
Woopsocket's base ball club has chal-
leng,d the Mitchell club to play at the
territorial fair for $500 a side with the
privilege Of raising to 81 goo.
The assistant superintendent of the
railway mail department has just made
q trip through this section, Investigating
complaints against the service.
The Northwestern's new time table
announces that regular trains began
running over the new extension from
Faulkton to Gettysburg Monday.
Efforts are being made to have Miss
Eckles and Miss Poole, the two ladies
who rode the ten mile race at Grand
Forks fair, ride at DEVILS Lake during
the fair, to be held Sept. 29th, Both and
Oct, 1st.
Sioux Falls claims the meanest man
iu the territory in the person OF Henry
Stringham, who collected money to bury
a dead child and buy medicine for three
others sick with diphtheria, and shen
spent it for whisky.
The 9 station of Burkemere, on the
GettysbuFg extension of the Northwest
ern, was opened for business on Sunday.
1t is nine and q half miles west from
Faulkton. At the same time Seneca, q
new station ten miles from Burkemere,
was also opened for business.
Robert J.. Wells, j. Wilson and I. w.
P. James were arrested In McCauIey-
vile at the instance of j.. r. Harris,
charged with disposing Of mortgaged
wheat. All have been placed under
$500 bonds except James, who is unable
to furnish bonds. and who. accordingly,
has been confined in jsil.
Miss Poole won the fve-mile: lady's
race at Grand Forks Saturday in 11:47,
being better mounted than in the former
races. Miss Eooles, the Minnesota
champion, cost by about one.iourth of q
mile. The purse was $3.50. Excitement
was very great. and when coming in on
the home stretch Miss Poole wal greeted
with thuEders Of applause.
The Farmers mutual protective asso-
citation, OF Aurora county, o mutual hail
insurance company, has inst issued Its
assessment call for this season. Its as
sesses for the whole amount OF the pre-
MUM notea. The ofioers are now or
ganizing o stock company With o capital
OF 100000 Farmers are preparing 80
unite to resist collection OF assessment.
This week the Baptists of south Da.
kots begin their sixth annual conven-
ton in Deli Rapids. They organized in
1881 at Madison, il q big barn owned
by q Baptist sister. They then had bat
three meeting houses; now they have
thirty; then they numbered two hun.
dred now two Thousand, including be-
tween thirty and forty ordained minis
tiers. 81.
From the water from its artesian vel
Altoona has a lake OF ten acres, four fee
deep, stocked with fish and it's waters
cut by the prowS OF many boats. In tht
winter he who wants ice gets is for tht
trouble of cutting and hauling it. Thu
the artesian furnishes meat (ish), drink
ices, merry sails and water power free
A similar sea is formed at Miller from
artesian water.
The committee appointed by the re,
cent national Polish alliance to look NJ
q location in Dakota for a Polish colon,
was at Jamestown last week on their way
to Crystal Springs. On thsir return the,
will investigate Stntsman oounty's oiain
for the colony. The committee consist
OF Messrs Kowalski of Illinois, Dorsomk
OF Wisconsin, and Losnowski OF Penn
sylvlana,
BY the new railroad time card pas.
sengers from the east will have q Sta,
of an hour and three quarters in Huron
Those from the west will have on,
hour and Eve minutes; those from
Cakes and the north will have ffty-fv,
minutes; hut Hawarden passengers viii
have no time to lose there, as theirtrail
arrives at the very moment the one TO
the south departs.
Gen. 81. 81. Sargent, former presiden
OF the Fargo Southern railroad, grow.
one Of the large wheat farms on the Rec
river valley, and has spent most of tn,
summer in and near Dakota. He ha.
given the wheat crop this season hi
special attention, and p~ronoHnces th,
statement put forth by romantic writers
that Dakota has grown 40. 600 900 bus.
bells Of wheat this year ali enormou ex
aggeFation. He says that %, 900, 0Ol
bushels would be a large estimate, apo
he would hardly put it above 20, 200. 900
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